Page 1546 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 4 May 2016
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We need to do more on the affordable housing front to make sure that we do not put people in that situation, at risk of homeless or actually tipping over the edge into homelessness. I call on the government to support my motion today and implement a wide range of measures that I have offered to them as examples of what they could be doing—no, what they should be doing—to improve housing affordability here in the ACT. I commend my motion to the Assembly.
MR HINDER (Ginninderra) (5.46): I move:
Omit all words after “notes”, substitute:
“(a) the extensive range of research and report literature the ACT Government is considering in shaping its ongoing responses to housing affordability and homelessness issues, including:
(i) the reports of the Housing and Homelessness Policy Consortium;
(ii) the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services;
(iii) reports and workshops of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute;
(iv) St Vincent de Paul’s The Ache For Home report;
(v) Anglicare’s 2016 Rental Affordability Snapshot;
(vi) local property market data and trends; and
(vii) reports from local housing and homelessness services;
(b) the importance of considering these sources in total and not selectively using point-in-time data;
(c) that, on numerous indicators, the ACT rates as the best or among the best in its performance on housing affordability and provision of housing support and homelessness services;
(d) the active role played by the ACT Government under the Affordable Housing Action Plan in improving housing affordability for all Canberrans through measures such as phasing out stamp duty and accelerating land supply; and
(e) that housing affordability is influenced by a range of factors and policies at both the Territory and national levels;
(2) further notes that:
(a) the ACT Government has led calls among State and Territory governments for the Australian Government to lead co-ordinated national action to improve housing affordability across Australia;
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